Gage.



PATENTED SEPT. 29, 1903.

0., F. ANDERSON.

- GAGE.

APPLIOATIOH FILED mm. 1a, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

CARL F. ANDERSON, OF GUTTENBEBG, NEVi JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS CONWAY, OF GUTTENBERG, NEW

JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,212, dated September 29, 1903. Application filed March 18, 1903. Serial No- 148,28. (No model.)

' .My invention relates to new and useful improvemenis in gages especially adapted to be used upon ordinary folding or pocket rules. Its object is to provide a simple and inexpensive device which may be readily attached to and adjustably mounted upon one end of a rule and which is provided with a laterallyextending arm which serves to guide the rule and to also support the other end thereof when the rule is folded. .7 r Y With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, showing the preferred form of my invention, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the gage in position upon a rule, gitudinal section therethrough, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the gage detached.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is the base of the gage, having side flanges 2, which are connected by a crossstrip 3, within which is arranged a set-screw 4. A guide-flange 5 projects downward from the front end of base 1 and has a laterally-extending arm 6, which is in alinement therewith and is of sufiicient length to support one end of an ordinary folding rule7.

I provide an oval slot or opening 8 in the base-plate, which permits of the end of the index or fore finger of the hand or the end of the thumb thereof being inserted therein, so as to press against the surface of the rule, which better facilitates the movements of the gage.

Fig. 2 is a 1011-.

To use the gage, one end of the rule is inserted under the cross-strip 3 until the desired graduation registers with the flange 5, and said rule is then locked in position by means of the set-screw 4.. The flange 5 is adapted to bear upon the edge of a board which it is desired to mark, and its arm 6 serves to support the opposite end of the rule, as shown in Fig. 1. By employing a gage such as herein described it is not necessary to use the finger to guide the rule when marking off a strip of lumber.

I attach importance to the construction of the gage, for the reason that in forming the same I make provision for securing only one end of one of the members of the rule, whereby the savingof time and material is accomplished.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- A gage comprising a base-plate having an oval slot therein and flanges rising vertically from the base-plate and provided with a crosspiece secured to the top edges of said flanges,

a set-screw operating in the cross-piece, a guide-gage having one portion secured to the base-plate and side flanges and the other por- Witnesses: V

WILLIAM J. MAGUIRE, ORISQN DICKINSON. 

